We have done a lot of different things to try to get money as high as we can get it this year. The fiscal year 2003 estimated program costs are approximately $12.5 billion. The annual appropriations is $11.4 billion. Now we want to open up Pell grants to illegal aliens? Although Pell grants are a discretionary program. the cost of increasing the number of eligible recipients in an award year is considered direct spending. when the appropriations and maximum grant award for that year are already set in law and a payment schedule is published. Thus. we could be facing a budget point of order with this bill.
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